Matthew 9:6 “But I want you to know that the Son of Man has authority on earth to forgive sins.” So He said to the paralyzed man, “Get up, take your mat and go home.”

Jesus has the power to forgive sins. What an extremely thrilling statement to receive and to know and to be comforted by. That He forgives us of all our sins. He has the power to forgive, no matter what the sins are. We can depend upon His mercy and grace. We thank God for His completed work at Calvary and that which He has done.

He told the paralytic man to take his mat and go home just as a demonstration that the sin is forgiven. There seems to be a correlation between sickness and sin. It was always there. We know that sin brought in sickness from the very Garden of Eden but also in the natural it seems that sin may be cause of illness in our lives, at times. Whether it just be the fall of man or whether it be a personal fault of our own. However, we can know that He has the power to forgive sins and we are able to receive it as a pure gift, a wonderful gift of forgiveness.

It would be foolish of us not to enjoy every living moment with complete forgiveness of sins. The Bible says that if we confess our sins, He is just enough to forgive us. We are just to confess and receive and enjoy the wonderful forgiveness of our Lord Jesus.

Genesis 9:15 “I will remember my covenant between me and you and all living creatures of every kind. Never again will the waters become a flood to destroy all life.”

I am so glad that the Lord remembers His covenant. That He is One that keeps His promises, the Yes and Amen. Whatever God says, He will do. He will remember the promises that He has made to you and the covenants that He has made to mankind.

We can always rejoice and be comforted, no matter what life looks like, or the things that may be thrown at us, or what the world is going through. God will always keep His covenant. He is God and everyone knows that He is the Lord and whatever He says will come to pass. It will happen exactly as He says.

So, wherever you are today and wherever you find yourself, be sure that God will keep His covenant and His promises; that which He has made to you regardless of what it seems like today.

John 11:4 “When He hear this, Jesus said, ‘this sickness will not end in death. No, it is for God’s gory so that God’s Son may be glorified through it.”

There is a limit to whatever hardship, difficulties, or challenges that we may endure in our life. Jesus said that the sickness will not end in death. There is an end or a limit to whatever difficulty, sickness, hardship or challenges may be allowed in our lives. He said that it was for God’s glory that the sickness was, or is, or will be allowed; to glorify the Son in it.

God will use circumstances, although He doesn’t initiate them, to benefit and to bless and to do. It always God’s perfect will that we have everything of the very best, but because we live in a less perfect world and being the less than perfect people, that the imperfections of this world are the tools, often times, in the hand of God to bring about the nature and purposes of God in our lives.

Be comforted that no matter how hard the circumstances are that you think you are facing, there is a limit. God will never test you above that which you are able, or ask more of you than you can cope with.